Stephen De Gabrielle wrote on 05/28/2017 09:08 AM:
> But don't discount the potential of throwing a young child at a
computer with
> only non-child software on it, and let them figure out
> how to do what they want, much on their own. That's how the early-1980s
> home computer kids got started, and that worked out pretty well.
Survivorship bias?
Could be; good point. (I've seen and suspected a lot of survivor bias
in academia, in various ways, especially around the fancy-pants schools,
and around narrow STEM paths; but that's another conversation.)
I know only a little of the work that has been done on this, by
education and developmental researchers, so I overstated my
non-specialist's opinion. My bad.
My *anecdotal experience and inexpert intuition* is that self-motivated
play by young children, who are in sponge mode, can be a powerful
learning machine, especially when given helpful nudges/nurturing.
Seymour Papert and others have worked on this.
And I believe I've observed the influence of people feeling that they
are doing well, or doing badly, at something new. So I suspect that
nudging that, as needed, can be key to the learner putting in enough
time and effort to do well.
I doubt that these general ideas would be controversial among actual
experts, but of course there must also be a lot more going on and
important, which they also know something about.
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